Martina is Head of Policy and Research for Independent Age, leading a team which works across income, costs and housing.
Martina has spent more than 15 years working in campaigns, policy and research roles for charity organisations, particularly on social determinants of health. Most recently this was at the Health Equals campaign and leading the Health Foundation's engagement and policy initiative the Young People's Future Health Inquiry. She also contributed to the Foundation's Covid-19 Impact Inquiry.
Before the Health Foundation she worked for Alzheimer’s Society and Rethink Mental Illness. Martina is a trained psychodynamic counsellor and did her MA dissertation on counsellor’s perspectives on talking therapies policy.